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AI-generatedDiagnosing and Fixing pandas SettingWithCopyWarning: A Practical Decision Guide
SettingWithCopyWarning means pandas cannot tell whether your assignment hit the original DataFrame or a temporary slice. Diagnose the exact cause, fix it with .loc or an explicit .copy(), and know when to escalate.